V

I think its a maturity thing for guys. My gym buddies and I were talking about mental health a while back and I said “I was on meds for a while because I had an irrational sense that life wasnt worth living. A year later on the meds I was fat, unmotivated and had erectile dysfunction and I was like ‘Great, now I have legitimate reasons to think about killing myself’ so I came off the pills.”

The 20 somethings all looked super fucking uncomfortable, the thirty somethings nodded and made sympathetic faces and the other 40+ guy said “How are you doing with it these days?” Of course I immediately deflected and said “Oh its hard as a rock” which got the laugh and broke the tension. But the only guy who didnt duck the conversation was the guy of a similar age who had a rough divorce years before I knew him…

No, but I did dumb shit like not making easy kills when I could and doing it the hard way, only using my sidearm and still doing better than him, actually kicking it up into high gear and wiping out the whole enemy team solo…

I did feel bad for smurfing all the innocent players who were indirect victims.

https://youtu.be/TfxScKi_Zec

Not just scoring on someone but adding a bunch of unnecessary showboating, flair and complexity while scoring to really put some emphasis on it.

I was a top 1000 ranked player in R6 Siege for a while. Which sounds unimpressive to people who dont know that at one point there were about 30 million registered players.

Funny Story about that is that I decided to take a break because I was starting to take it too seriously. I was good but I wasnt going to go pro and I had a good job and a mortgage that I was putting at risk by staying up all night playing. So I actually really got into Angry Birds and Plants Vs Zombies for a while something easy enough to just put down and get some sleep… anyway I was at dinner with some of my wifes work friends a few weeks later and it came up that I was a gamer and one of her friends husbands asked me what I was playing and I said “Recently Angry Birds…” and before I could say anything else he turned into an absolute gatekeeping shitlord lecturing me about how that isnt real gaming and so on for about 5 minutes. Then he mentioned he played Siege… I couldnt help myself “Ive seen that, maybe I could add you on steam and try it out sometime” so a little creative account making later a few nights later I joined him in a few casual matches. I spent about 2 hours casually windmill dunking on him before I was like “Man this IS fun, but its getting late. I might head to bed, play a little AB before I crash out.”

He was at the Xmas party this year and he is still butthurt.

Speaking VERY GENERALLY and no I dont want to argue about this. 0 to 5 tend to gravitate towards their mother because they want to feel nurtured and protected. 6 to 12 tend to gravitate to their father because they are more likely to encourage behavior that carries an element of risk as they want to try new things or develop skills.

But they also arent stupid and pretty fast pick up on which parent to take what to for the best outcome.

Next time you’re in a waiting room or somewhere a bunch of people are just sitting around trying not to bother each other have a look around and see how many people are sitting there actively not closing their mouths to breathe, its going to be zero. I dont mean they dont sigh or take the odd breath either. Then just imagine they are, its horrifying.

I’m the exact same especially the ADHD because it gives me another calculation to do "Building my own looks fun plus buying one is more expensive minus the chance of me getting bored half way through and wasting the initial investment. Hmmmm lets spend a little more and just get the thing premade.

For a while there with the “Not a flamethrower” and stuff he did manage to put a veneer of “Wacky” over the way he conducts business.

A friend suggested UBI for rural and semi rural areas only.

“If you want to collect a check and do fuckall but work on your art or music or whatever. Fine, but do it somewhere people arent fighting tooth and nail to live awesome lives.” If you want to live near the beach and have awesome international touring bands come to your city… that shit is for the people who work for it.

I mean, its not a terrible idea.

Which is a fine alternative. Sometimes I want food content, sometimes I want food adjacent. He is very good at both IMO, but the reasons we gave a shit about his opinion isnt because he makes ranking lists.

Babish did recently do a bit of a “Yeah, even we’re bored with this now” video and has gone back to his roots a bit.

Lemmy wants the baby without the labor pains.

“Destroy Capitalism!”

“But what about the millions who will die in the ensuing chaos!?!”

“Well dont do it that way!”

“Which way then?”

“DESTROY CAPITALISM!”

Yeah the system is fucked and definitely needs change, but its either gradual or violent and as someone who came up with rough crowds in rough places. Most people arent cut out for when the actual violence starts.

I have a problem like that with man made static heights.Sounds weirdly specific but Rollercoasters dont bother me, flying is fine and edges of cliffs are ok. But a railing on a hotel balcony or glass floor over a drop… GET FUCKED.

The “Coaches” in Gran Turismo 7 on the licence tests.

Yes I’m having some trouble you smug fuckstain, I’m trying to gold every licence test. ITS HARD. I dont need to be constantly reminded.

Bicycle riding, vegans, linux, dieting, crossfit, etc.

You dont know the normal ones, you know the foaming at the mouth loonies who wont shut up about it.

Im a project car guy, can I add funds? Seriously, daddy needs a new engine.

Honestly MMA events are usually pretty chill when it comes to actual violence I believe its because the percentage of people who can actually fight in the audience is way higher than at regular sports.

The dudebro assholes can never be 100% sure if that skinny dude is there because he likes to watch fights or because he trains with one of the competitors.

Not to mention Claptrap.

Macguffin it just enough to be maybe plausable, give it enough rules to make it interesting, be consistent and then shut the fuck up about it.